Rgyud bla ma'i spyi don

རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་སྤྱི་དོན།

Rgyud bla ma'i spyi don

General Exegesis on the Ultimate Continuum

Commentary of Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

SOURCE TEXT

This is a short treatise from the collection of bka' gdams gsung 'bum phyogs bsgrigs which was recently published containing books from Drepung Nechu library. Although the compilers attributed this work to Lochen Kyapchok Palzang, there is no colophon to confirm it. The work discusses the adamantine and luminous nature of Buddha-Nature.

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Recensions of This Text

Rgyud bla ma'i spyi don. (General Exegesis on the Ultimate Continuum). Recension information:

Tibetan	Lo tsA ba skyabs mchog dpal bzang. རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་སྤྱི་དོན། (Rgyud bla ma'i spyi don). In Bka' gdams gsung 'bum phyogs bsgrigs thengs gsum pa, Vol. 16: 505-506. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2009.

Philosophical positions of this text

Is buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?

Definitive 

Does this text belong to definitive or provisional meaning?

Definitive 

Do all beings have buddha-nature?

Yes 

To which "turning of the wheel" do the buddha-nature teachings belong?

Third Turning 

Do the author's writings belong to the analytic or meditative tradition of Uttaratantra exegesis?

Meditative Tradition 

What is Buddha-nature?

Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature 

Text Metadata

Text exists in	~ Tibetan
Commentary of	~ Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra

gotra - Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain. Skt. गोत्र Tib. རིགས་ Ch. 鍾姓,種性

neyārtha - Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true. Skt. नेयार्थ Tib. དྲང་དོན་

Tsen Tradition - Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. བཙན་ལུགས་

Uttaratantra - The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra. Skt. उत्तरतन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ Ch. 寶性論

These are the root verses of the Uttaratantra attributed to Maitreya by the Tibetan tradition.

Tsen Tradition - Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. བཙན་ལུགས་